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Sebastian Sevignani

Media and Communication in Digital Capitalism: Critical Perspectives

by Sebastian Sevignani and Marlen van den Ecker

Contemporary media technology develops and is used for communication within social conditions frequently referred to as “digital capitalism.” Different from the diagnoses of “postindustrial,” “informational,” or even a “global knowledge society,” “digital capitalism” expresses that social change simultaneously shows important continuities in respect to basic social relations...

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Digital Exploitation: Linking Communication and Labour

by Marisol Sandoval and Sebastian Sevignani

Critical media and communication sociology is facing a theoretical and practical dilemma: While for critical social theory, inspired by Marxian and Marxist thinking, productive activity is key to understanding the momentum of social transformation, communication and media tend to remain marginal issues. Critical communication research, on the other hand, analyses ideologies and media effects but often neglects labour. It seems that...

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